The Information Channel Felist.Com -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Chechen Republic: official site.| | |All aboutChechnya| news| history| Actual News from Chechnya | || traditions| music | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | News update | # # Issue 260 | | | 04.02.05 | |Internet-portal Chechnyafree.ru | | |acknowledged as the best |Chechnya: news | arguments | facts | |information Regional Project | | | |04 February 2005 Rosselkhozbank Is Strenghening Its Positions| |Chechnyafree.ru Internet-portal |In Chechnya | |took part in the second |This April will mark 4 years since the opening in Grozny of | |International festival of |Chechnyas regional branch of the OAO Rosselkhozbank. | |non-commercial internet |Established in March of 2000 by orders from President Putin, | |projects, which was held from |OAO Rosselkhozbank faced the task to restore the credit system| |2003 by the Web-masters Union of|of Chechnyas agro-industrial complex. Today Chechnyas regional| |Russia and sponsored by the |branch of the OAO Rosselkhozbank, in addition to an office in | |Federation Union, the State |Grozny, has another 6 offices: in the Znamenskoye Village, in | |Duma, the Moscow City |Gudermes, in the Shelkovskaya Stanitsa (large Cossack | |Government. Taking part in it |village), in the Achkhoi-Martan Village, in Shali, and in the | |were state, commercial and |Staropromyslovsky District, and also 2 bank outlets in Grozny.| |public organizations. The |Another 4 offices of Chechnyas regional branch of the OAO | |festival is aimed at spreading |Rosselkhozbank will shortly start their work in the Oktyabrsky| |Russias non-commercial internet |and Leninsky districts in Grozny, and also in Urus-Martan and | |space and supporting youth |Argun. Having strengthened its positions in the republic, this| |initiatives dealing with social |bank continued its successful work there. It is for a third | |problems, reducing extremist |year now that Chechnyas branch of the OAO Rosselbank has been | |tendencies in our society and |regarded as the top performer in its field among the 64 | |strengthening international |Chechnyas regional branches of the OAO Rosselkhozbank that | |ties. More than 3,000 people |successfully function all over the country. Its revenues | |representing 468 data resource |within the above-mentioned period reached 240 million roubles.| |managers from Russia, the |Showing its universality, Chechnyas regional branch of the OAO| |Commonwealth countries, the |Rosselkhozbank , as its director Usman Yerikhanov says, is | |Baltic states and other foreign |winning greater confidence among its clients, whose number is | |countries participated in the |growing. Chechnyas regional branch offers services to up to | |festival in 2004. The final |3,000 juridical persons and also to more than 15,000 physical | |program of the festival took |persons. Besides, it has offered for use a number of new bank | |place in Moscow from January 18 |products , which its clients approved. On that list is the | |through January 23, 2005 and it |Bank-Client system. Its task is to minimize the clients | |featured seminars, instruction |visiting the bank. The Zarplatnyi proyekt (Salary Project) | |and master-classes with leading |system has been worked out specially for enterprises and | |IT experts. The festival |organizations, with due regard for all difficulties and | |declared Chechnyafree.ru the |dangers of cash movement across Chechnya. Now physical persons| |winner in the Best Information |receive their wages, pensions and benefits at Chechnyas | |Regional Project nomination. |regional branch of the OAO Rosselkhozbank. Today Chechnyas | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ |residents and juridical persons have a chance to receive and | |index.php?section=newsarceng& |transfer money orders with the same day delivery to any place | |rowid=20884&lng=eng] more...) |in Russia, in the former Soviet republics and in foreign | | |countries in either roubles or hard currency. The banks | |Deputy Dagestani Interior |present-day strategy has for an object to step up the inflow | |Minister killed |of investments in all branches of the national economy. In the| | |2001 to 2004 period Chechnyas regional branch of the OAO | |Dagestan's deputy interior |Rosselkhozbank extended nearly 400 million roubles worth of | |minister Magomed Omarov was |credits. In the first place, credits are given to support | |killed the other day. Meanwhile |investment projects to modernize the current industries and | |Dagestani authorities do not |also for import-replacement projects. The credits Chechnyas | |doubt the fact that Omarov's |regional branch of the OAO Rosselkhozbank gave last year were | |murder has something to do with |helpful in modernizing the Staroyurtovskaya poultry-breeding | |his work. Dagestan is an |factory, the Nozhai-Yurt brickworks and the Transmash plant. | |autonomous Russian republic on |Chechnyas regional branch of the OAO Rosselkhozbank takes an | |the Caspian coast. Omarov |active part in the socially significant projects. It is an | |supervised public-safety issues,|authorized bank for servicing the accounts of citizens, | |doing his best to uphold law and|receiving compensation payments for lost homes and properties | |order. He also participated in |during the settlement of the Chechen crisis. In 2004 the bank | |all large-scale anti-crime |in Chechnya ensured the transfer of up to 14 billion roubles | |operations, Abdulmanap Musayev, |to the accounts of more than 39,000 of Chechnyas citizens. On | |chief of the Dagestani interior |the results of Russias contest, The Manager of the Year, | |ministry's press center, noted. |Finances and Insurance, that was conducted in June of 2003 by | |In 1999 Omarov took an extremely|the International Academy of Management, Russias Economic | |active part in repelling the |Society, and the Association of Russias Regional Banks and | |bandit attack on Dagestan. At |Financial Institutions among 250 enterprises of the Southern | |that time, he had received the |Federal District Chechnyas regional branch of the OAO | |Order of Courage. Omarov, who |Rosselkhozbank has become the winner in the category Trust and| |was lightly wounded and |Reliability. | |shell-shocked during combat |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |operations, returned to active |Chechnya...) | |duty in no time at all. | | |According to Musayev, Omarov |04 February 2005 D.Kozak: Maskhadov orders ceasefire. | |took part in large-scale arrests|Goodwill act? | |in Khasav-Yurt and Makhachkala |Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen separatist leader, has ordered | |early this January. Several |unilateral cessation of combat operations. He actually means | |attempts had been made on |the move to remind the public of his existence, holds Dmitri | |Omarov's life. The thugs tried |Kozak, presidential envoy plenipotentiary to the Southern | |to blow up his car several years|federal district. Maskhadov and Shamil Basayev, are alleged to| |ago. However, no one was hurt |have ordered combat operations suspended to February 22 as a | |back then. Omarov's car was |goodwill act. The information comes from Chechen separatist | |fired upon in downtown |web sites-Kavkaz-Center and Chechenpress. "Maskhadov has often| |Makhachkala at 8.40 p.m. Moscow |made such attempts. In fact, he no longer has the say-so in | |time. The deputy interior |Chechnya, so we don't pay too much attention to his move. To | |minister was killed as a result |all appearances, he just doesn't want to go into oblivion," | |of that attack. Three other |said Mr. Kozak. He was addressing newsmen during a break in a | |interior-ministry officials were|business development conference in district South, underway in| |killed, as well. Another |Volgograd. The North Caucasian regional anti-terror HQ | |operative, who was seriously |previously denied the authenticity of Maskhadov's and | |wounded, is now staying in |Basayev's statements. "Whatever references to the bandit | |hospital, Musayev added. Omarov |underground chieftains are false, and the statements fruit of | |was riding in a Niva car that |Movladi Udugov's imagination," the HQ says in a press release.| |was escorted by a VAZ-21099 Lada|[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |car. Omarov's car was riddled |Chechnya...) | |with bullets that ripped through| | |doors and windows. According to |04 February 2004 Russia calls Basayev TV interview support | |police officers, the attackers, |for terrorists | |who were staying inside two |Moscow regards the airing of an interview with Chechen warlord| |VAZ-21099 cars, fired automatic |Shamil Basayev on British TV as direct media support for | |weapons from the right side. As |terrorists, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a Friday | |has already been reported, |press release. "We consider the step as direct information | |terrorists tried to kill |support for terrorists operating in the North Caucasus," the | |Alimsultan Alkhamatov, acting |ministry said. "In the present conditions, any attempts to | |administrator of Dagestan's |justify giving a platform to terrorists, whose hands are | |Khasav-Yurt district, which |stained with the blood of innocent victims, including | |borders on Chechnya, February 2.|children, by references to freedom of speech look cynical, to | |An explosive device went off at |put it mildly," the ministry said. | |the curb, while Alkhamatov's |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] (more News from| |Mercedes-Benz limousine was |Chechnya...) | |driving by. No one was hurt as a| | |result of that blast, | ------------------------------------------------------------ | |press-center people noted. | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | Russia - Chechnya | |index.php?lng=eng] more...) | | | | Chechen culture | | Chechen history | | | |Literary Ties | |Chechnya | Questions and answers|The role of Russian writers in shaping the modern-age Chechen | | |literature | |To Reader | | |All about Chechnya, chechens. |[685] | |ChechenRepublic | news| history||The modern-age Chechen literature started in the 1920s when | |traditions| music |writers and poets in Chechnya established contacts with | | |colleagues in other parts of the Soviet Union. It was a close | |This pamphlet is about Chechnya,|concern of such great founding fathers of the Soviet | |a Russian territory which has |literature as A.Serafimovich, M.Gorky and M.Golodny. | |witnessed the most tragic events|A.Serafimovich was a frequent visitor to Chechnya at the time.| |over the past decade. The book |In 1929, he attended an executive meeting of the Grozny | |is the latest update on the |Association of Proletarian Writers. In an address to the | |Chechen Republic . And this is |gathering, he called on the Chechen writers 'to move as one | |very important, since a lack of |into real life'. In 1930, he sponsored the publication of a | |fresh and accurate information |Russian version of the poem 'To the Time of the Tsars' by the | |about events in Chechnya |Chechen poet Said Baduyev. The poem was published in the | |generates many distorted |opening issue of the NA PODYEME ('On the Rise') literary | |conceptions and rumours - both |journal. In the late 1920s and in the opening half of the | |within and outside Russia . For |1930s, M.Gorky was in overall charge of inter-ethnic literary | |example, that Chechen society is|exchanges within the Soviet Union. His favourite method was | |allegedly inherently alien to |dispatching writer support brigades to outlying Soviet | |Russia , that pro-Russian |republics and regions. Said Baduyev in 1932 responded to this | |elements in the republic are |by publishing an essay entitled 'Maxim Gorky is Our Teacher'. | |marginalised; and lastly, that |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |Russian power structures are |cliteratureeng&row=3] in detail ...) | |fighting the Chechen people, | | |rather than armed bandit groups.| Chechen tarditions | |The reality, however, is that | | |only with the return of the |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev | |legitimate authorities are |Edi Isaev on Customs and Traditions of Chechens The book" | |villages and towns being |Vainakh Ethics " by Edi Isaevthe chechen character | |restored, children going to | | |school for the first time in |The book "Vainakh Ethics" by Edi Isaev is an utmost important | |many years, and pensioners |work at a time when the life in Chechnya is returning to | |receiving long-forgotten |normal. Edi Isaev is a historian, Professor at the Chechen | |pensions, i.e. a social rebirth |State University, writer and publicist directs his book to | |is underway. Lying ahead are a |youth. In introduction he emphasizes: "The norm of Vainakh | |referendum on a new Chechen |ethics is the code of wise truths of people that reflects | |constitution, and parliamentary |their ideals." The book is educational. It contains the ideas | |and presidential elections. |on ethics by thinkers of various people and various times from| |These votes will be held, |Epicurus and Confucius A.S. Makarenko and L.N.Toltoi. The | |despite continued attempts by |second chapter is devoted to ethic norms of Chechens. The | |bandit groups and their leaders |third chapter considers in detail traditional family ethic | |to scupper the process of |code. The final chapter is devoted to Islamic ethic norms. | |normalisation in the republic, |Materials from the book Vainakh Ethics by Edi Isaev is devoted| |the latest terrorist act being |to customs and traditions of Chechens. | |the bombing of the republican |[http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng§ion= | |government building. The war |bookvaineng&row=0] (more about chechen traditions...) | |being waged by Chechen | | |separatists against federal | Chechen cuisine | |forces and more often than not | | |against their own co-citizens is|All about Chechnya, chechens. ChechenRepublic | news| history|| |by no means a "national |traditions| music | |liberation struggle of the |"The Chechens, like the rest of the highlanders, avoid | |Chechen people", but an episode |extremes in their eating and drinking habits. What they | |in the overall offensive by |usually eat is chureks or corn bread with mutton lard spread | |international terrorism on the |on it, and wheat stew with lard in it; water is their basic | |fundamental principles of modern|refreshment." "...Unleavend wheat or barley bread baked on | |civilisation. The facts show |charcoal, milk and cheese constitute their daily menu; meat is| |that being a part of the Russian|eaten, very rarely, by the richest of the Chechens." That was | |Federation in no way threatens |written about the Chechen eating habits in the 19th century. | |the Chechen Republic 's cultural|And it was not until the late 19th century that many | |identity, the free use of its |vegetables grown in Europe - tomatoes, cabbage, radish - had | |own language, and preaching |found their way to the kitchen gardens of mountainous | |Islam. On the contrary, it was |Chechnya. Chechen farming units have, since times immemorial, | |during de facto "independence" |been self-sufficient, with only spices and sweetmeats being | |from Russia that the Chechen |bought at the market. And, although they have become familiar | |people suffered a humanitarian |with the cuisines of many other ethnic communities, the | |tragedy on an unprecedented |Chechen women cherish the very special culinary traditions of | |scale. Hostage-taking, the slave|their own. | |trade and plundering came to |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?section=kitcheneng&lng=| |form the economic basis of the |eng] in detail ...) | |new regime, while chaos and war | | |became the form of its political| - | |existence. We want to emphasise | | |once more: Chechnya is part of |## | |Russia , geographically, | | |politically and | Copyright [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/index.php?lng=eng] | |civilisation-wise. So a | CHECHNYA FREE.RU | |hypothetical triumph of radical | | |Islamism on its territory would | | |be anti-historical. Such a | | |development would signify the | | |establishment in the midst of | | |Europe of a Taliban-like regime,| | |with all ensuing consequences | | |for the international community.| | |The corporate author - | | |journalists of the Russian | | |Information Agency Novosti - | | |have attempted to be as brief as| | |possible on providing answers to| | |the most-often aked questions | | |(above all posed by a foreign | | |audience) about the Chechen | | |issue. Hence the book's title: "| | |Chechnya : Questions and | | |Answers". It draws heavily on | | |information provided by various | | |Russian ministries and | | |departments that in one or | | |another way are involved in | | |normalising life in the | | |republic. | | |Russian Information Agency | | |Novosti | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?section=answerseng&lng| | |=eng] in detail ...) | | | | | | Chechen economics | | | | | |Russian savings bank is | | |restoring its branches in | | |Chechnya | | | | | |[3054] TheNorth Caucasus branch | | |of the Russian savings bank was | | |opened in the middle of December| | |in prospect Pobedy, house number| | |5 in Grosny, where all existing | | |40 banking operations can be | | |carried out. Money can be | | |received and sent to any part of| | |Russia, payment for communal | | |services and other financial | | |operations can be effected. In | | |addition to the Grozny branch | | |another one has been operating | | |for 3 years in the Naursk | | |settlement, serving in the man, | | |private individuals and enabling| | |residents to keep money safe in | | |the bank. It also pays | | |compensation for depreciated | | |savings and accepts payment for | | |communal services. In an | | |interview for the free Chechnya | | |radio chairman of the North | | |Caucasus subsidiary of the | | |Russian savings bank Viktor | | |Gavrilov has said that among the| | |functions of the banks branches | | |in Chechnya is paying both state| | |and local compensations to | | |Chechens, including for lost and| | |damaged property and house | | |arising from the fighting in | | |Chechnya. They equally pay | | |compensation to former account | | |holders as well as pay out | | |states pension and benefits. The| | |recently signed agreement | | |between the Chechen prime | | |minister, Sergei Abramov and the| | |chairman of the Russian savings | | |bank, Andrei Kazymin on | | |compensations payment envisages | | |the orders of remittance and | | |payment into special account of | | |residents as well as payouts and| | |accounting. The agreement lists | | |out affiliates of the North | | |Caucasus savings bank in which a| | |special account can be opened. | | |Apart from the branches in the | | |Nausk village and Grozny 6 other| | |branches are also to pay out | | |money. They are located in the | | |border regions of Chechnya: two | | |are in the Dagestani branch in | | |the town of Kizlyar, pereulok | | |Rybni, house number 4-A and the | | |town of Hasav-Yurt, Daibova | | |street, house number 8. In | | |Ingushetia; the town of | | |Malgabek, Gardanova street | | |number 27; in the village of | | |Ordzhonikidzovskaya, Oskanova | | |street number 34; the town of | | |Nazran, prospect Bazorkin, 10; | | |and in the town of Mozdok, Kirov| | |street, house number 61. The | | |Russian savings bank is to | | |enlarge services to clients in | | |Chechnya with the granting of | | |loans to buy goods, building | | |materials as well as give out | | |mortgage credits. The | | |participation of the savings | | |bank in economic projects in | | |Chechnya is under active | | |consideration and an agreement | | |is to be signed with republican | | |leaders on the construction of | | |apartment buildings. In 2005 the| | |3rd branch of the North Caucasus| | |subsidiary of the Russian | | |savings bank will be | | |commissioned in Gudermes and the| | |opening of other branches in | | |several parts of Chechnya will | | |follow. | | |([http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?lng=§ion= | | |economeng] more...) | | | | | |--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------| | [http://www.chechnyafree.ru/ | | |index.php?section=projectrus&lng|[mail][mailto:info@chechnyafree.ru] [mailto] | | =eng] [about] | | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -*-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: http://felist.com/member/unsub?grp=news.media.chechnyafree&email= http://felist.com/ mailto:ask@felist.com